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But Neuhaus had no illusions about the reality and consequences of secularization and the decline of Western culture.
Daniel Bell had argued that "the essence of modernity is that
'nothing is sacred,' " and Neuhaus himself quoted one of the great
late-twentieth-century Polish intellectuals (along with Pope John
Paul II and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz), Leszek Kolakowski,
critiquing "the morbid tempo of progress": "When I try to point
out the single most dangerous side of modernity, I tend to sum
up my fear in one phrase: the disappearance of taboos. . . . The
various traditional human bonds which make communal life at
all possible, and without which our existence would be regulated
only by greed and fear, are not likely to survive without a taboo
system."
In the academy and in the wider culture wars, desacralization,
pornography, and violence have been increasingly prevalent and
glamorized by increasingly powerful audiovisual means. Nativist American cultural barbarism, from Whitman to Ginsberg and
Mailer, has become toxically mixed with desperately fashionable
French Nietzschean-Heideggerian relativism and nihilism, a veritable witches' brew.
Neuhaus's final book, American Babylon: Notes of a Christian
Exile, posthumously published in 2009, contains some of his most
profound insights and powerful writing. As Charles Morris wrote
in the New York Times, "American Babylon displays Neuhaus in all
his virtues-elegantly argued and written, fair-minded and with a
formidable range of reference-making the important point that
politics without an anchor in a public morality can quickly slip
away in dark directions," as it did in the writing of Richard Rorty.
Neuhaus's target in the chapter entitled "An Age of Irony" is
the celebrated postmodernist philosopher and literary critic Rich122



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